equality
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Text ‘enrichens’ knowledge of Asian Americans in the South
July 18, 2019 by Nichi Bei News
A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South By Stephanie Hinnershitz (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2017, 296 pp., $39.95, hardcover) In “A […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: The civil rights politics and complexities of Nikkei ‘coming out’ as LGBT
June 13, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
This week’s entry represents the seventh annual column that I have produced for the Nichi Bei on the queer heritage of Japanese Americans. In past entries, I have explored such […] READ MORE
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Beate Gordon, a drafter of Japan’s Constitution, dies at 89
January 10, 2013 by Nichi Bei News
NEW YORK (Kyodo) — Beate Sirota Gordon, a drafter of the Japanese Constitution who wrote its article stipulating the equality of the sexes, died Dec. 30 of pancreatic cancer at […] READ MORE
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THE GREAT UNKNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN GREAT: Revisiting the JACL’s historic debate over same-sex marriage
May 18, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect the NAACP’s May 19, 2012 endorsement of same-sex marriage. Today’s installment of “The Great Unknown,” which marks my sixth annual column […] READ MORE
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The princess phenomenon
January 1, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture By Peggy Orenstein (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, 256 pp., $25.99, hardcover) While true gender equity […] READ MORE
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Japanese women still stand low on corporate ladder
September 2, 2010 by Nichi Bei Web
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Twenty-five years have passed since the Equal Employment Opportunity Law for Men and Women was enacted to fight gender inequality at the workplace. By this time, people […] READ MORE
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